Is Mac on the verge of a gaming revolution?
Like Valve's Proton compatibility layer for Steam Deck, Apple has made the Game Porting Toolkit to let Windows games run on macOS - so we tested it.
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It sounds a bit rough now, but hopefully it means devs will be willing to make dedicated ports for it. And I think when we start getting more ARM Windows machines, and more games made to work on it, GPT will work better.
Doesn't really sound like it.
@0xtero Given how rapidly gaming on Linux has advanced since the introduction of Proton, it could be a lot closer than you think
@rafoix
Just tested it my M1 laptop. Works fine for my library so far. If I had more free time I would post a list of tested games. I don’t tend to buy the latest games on PC.
I mean, I sure hope so, but it seems unlikely to happen in the nearest future. Apple has been mostly ignoring Mac gaming for a long time.
This is the most effort they’ve done outside of the iOS ecosystem in decades.
Apple is usually slow to the party. They just wait for everyone else to try things first before giving it a try. Linux and Steamdeck’s translation layer has been doing this successfully for years.